Nikki Null

Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.

Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor

Thank you for saying that! It was a really hard book to write, and I never really thought I'd reach anyone with a novel that's almost too twisty to talk about without spoiling anything. I'm so glad the book reached you and brought you joy!

Twelve hours remain in this bundle! If you've been sleeping on this, or if you're like me and you often wait until it's down to the wire to grab a sale, there's not much time left to snag 32 powerful trans books.

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Thanks for the interest in, boosts & purchases of this trans books bundle! (I've had to increase the goal multiple times 😄).

These books, some also including queer normative and or LGBTQIA+ joy, are available as this set for 4 more days.

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And on top of that, the moment you realize that *you* were being junctioned across time to help Laguna/Kiros/Ward? That blew my mind. Subtly setting up the 'time compression' theme as early as disc 1.

People often make fun of the orphanage plot twist, but the cost of using GFs is one of my favorite takes on a magic system in the entire series. You've made a hard bargain with forces you barely comprehend, without even worrying about the cost.

This bundle is still going strong 💖🫶🏻💖

Only four days left!

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Not gonna lie, I've been refreshing this submissions list weekly, deeply hoping someone might submit my novel 👀

Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itch.io The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

Bundle made it halfway to goal in one day! If you haven't already checked it out, this is a great way to support 32 trans authors during Trans Awareness Month and get some phenomenal books in the process.

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Rewire your brain, defy fate, hack gods.
#queersff #translit 🌈📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I got that comment on my book as well, and it had me glowing for weeks. We need more egg-cracking literature!

Check it out, my book is a part of this incredible bundle!

A lot of these books were already on my TBR list, and Trans Awareness Month is as good a time as any for a trans book marathon. I'll be reading as many of these as I can this month. Who's joining me?

Yep, trans is an adjective, woman is the noun! It's grammatically improper for the same reason we typically don't smash together "tallwoman," "oldwoman," or "gayman" into one word.

And as you say, the one-word version has recently become a subtle linguistic dogwhistle spread by right wing groups.

hit me with your recommendations for excellent trans adult fiction by trans authors? Stag Dance and RCBG have been rattling around in my head since I read them and I and want to read more trans stories that aren't memoir or aimed at young readers!

Just another way this platform is slowly turning into that other one. Call it enXittification.

Anyway! 🌈🚀 How odd, the bots are among us! Love that for you. Reminds me of that one queer SFF book, "H̵̖̑ĕ̵̬l̸̙͗p̶͘͜!̴͈͌ ̸̬͠M̵̻̾y̸̻͂ ̶͈̄m̷̥͐i̷͂͜n̶͙̓d̷̘̄ ̷̖͒ḥ̵͠ă̷̭s̷̋͜ ̷̖̒b̶̩̐e̶̮̍e̵̳͌n̴̡̂ ̸̭̓u̷̥̇p̸̲͐l̴̠̾o̶͓̾a̴̗̎ď̴͈è̸̦d̵͍̀ ̶͙̇i̵͓͐n̴̙̿t̴͈̍o̸̻̊ ̶̡͘a̴̺͊n̴͙̈́ ̸̪̅Ả̵͉Ī̸͙ ̸̘̈́c̴͓̈́h̵̿͜a̴͚̍t̵͈̿b̴̡̌ò̴̫ẗ̷̖́!̷̡̽" on Kindle! Have you ever been assimilated?? 😯😜

But the first few posts aren't enough anymore.
I look at every account I follow back, but if a bunch of people you follow are already following, it's easier to drop one's guard and assume the crowd knows best. Either the wisdom of the crowd has failed, or I'm in a really weird dead internet bubble.

Sometimes they're really obvious. I saw this one today. See how it smashes certain keywords and hashtags in different configurations, always with that engagement-driving question, trying to pull people in.

A few observations, aside from the obvious fact that no human would engage with spam like that. Bots often drop the "I" at the start of their sentences to try to sound casual, they use emoji sequences to get onto particular feeds, and they always end with a question to try boosting engagement.

Not trying to dogpile any particular accounts. The issue is widespread.

These accounts often appear reasonable at a precursory glance. You might not catch them until they reply to some nonsensical hashtag storm, making sense of nothing, then pivoting to sell their two ebooks.

So many spammy AI comments in here these days, especially in small niches like queer Booksky. I just caught one from an account I followed, which now makes it personal.

Many users are following accounts like this. You probably do too. Short thread I guess 🧵

That sounds fantastic, I immediately added it to the top of my list!

Our Simulated Selves had sixteen drafts... somebody please stop me if this one approaches anywhere near that 🥲

Powerpuff girls 4-panel meme: slow burn T4T romance, spooky cryptids, Stardew Valley Coziness, TWIN PEAKS EXISTENTIAL HORROR

Drafting on my next novel is going slow but steady! It's out of my genre comfort zone but I'm really excited about this one. For now, my WIP has the extremely tentative working title "Farm Fresh Eggs." I'm certain that will change whenever I think of something more on theme or genre-appropriate.

does anyone have any queer/trans and/or sapphic book recommendations that aren’t romances? I need more for my lists 💖 the more diverse the better!!

sapphic isn’t necessary but it does get bonus points for being sapphic

Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null A trans technothriller novel about a simulated apocalypse and recursive truths.

Oh, I wrote one! Our Simulated Selves. It's a cyberthriller that explores that classic trans sapphic conundrum of "do I like her or want to *be* like her?" but it's decidedly NOT a romance novel. MC is a closeted, oblivious trans programmer in a simulation controlled by their real-life counterpart.

Sorry if this is about me or if I have contributed at all to the need for this message 😅

Is it too late to add another? I just saw this and I think it would be fun to be part of a bundle!

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

...you just unlocked 25-year-old memories of the ancient flame wars as people crashed out about trolls lying about Stop 'n' Swop working in the Banjo-Kazooie GameFAQs message board

Protomen Part 3 Album cover - This City Made us a character stares into the city as in the distance a giant beam of light shoots from the mountains into the cloudy sky.

Everyone SHUT THE FUCK UP Protomen dropped pre-orders for Act III theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Coheed and Cambria mentioned 👀